OUR Best posts 05.15.10

Worth the read:

• The Taliban secret wounded.
• Wall St Bank Robber Barrons
• Schapiro misleads public,-1,000 pt drop ( Cyber attack )
• Paki gearing up for something.
• Cyber War, Battle Field
• Taliban loosing Control
• People to prison Banks to Bailout
• Omar knew about 911.

 Worth the read:

 Gerald
Anthropologist

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X-37B Secret missions

X-37B program recently launched into space.

"If these technologies on the vehicle prove to be as good as we estimate, it will make our access to space more responsive, perhaps cheaper, and push us in the vector toward being able to react to warfighter needs more quickly," said Gary Payton, the Air Force deputy undersecretary for space Programs.

"This launch helps ensure that our warfighters will be provided the capabilities they need in the future," said Col. Andre Lovett, the 45th Space Wing vice commander and launch decision authority for the mission. "The 45th Space Wing (members are) proud to launch this historic mission and continue our commitment to assuring access to the high frontier."

"It will provide an "on-orbit laboratory" test environment"

SOURCE:

Just figured out what that means.US Air Force now has the capabilities to rendezvous
with anything the Iranian regime launches into space,
and remove all 6 'D cell' batteries from their satellite,
rendering it powerless.

Or if  it looks cute to put the satellite into the X-37B
cargo bay and bring it back to USA.

Maybe hold it till they release the hikers Iran is holding
hostage.


Gerald
Anthropologist
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The Taliban secret wounded.

Taliban secret wounded.

 
Taliban is trying to hide the number of mental
health cases among their ranks.
Traumatic Stress is epidemic and the Taliban's
ability to deal with this is problematic.

The Taliban have neither the time of resources
to treat these wounded shells of humans.

Their methods range from Heroin, to telling
them to pray, and in cases of the very violent
insurgents they are sent to front lines if they
can walk but in some instances they just shoot
them as they are too dangerous to to their
own troops to release.

In a "Taliban rest compound" duplicated
hundreds of times through out Afghan and N Waziristan. Packs
of former Taliban fighters try to convalesce. Hundreds untreated for depression, schizophrenic episodes, tramatic stress.They walk in never ending circles, or just sit and stare. Handling people rattled by bloodshed who already have mental illnesses is far more challenging. Some they convince to become suicide bombers.

The courtyard is filled, insurgents dulled by heroin sit on a cement floor in rows, quietly staring at each other. Some look lost. Others are suspicious. Buying drugs to calm them or help them sleep at night.

Some of the Taliban are too depressed to function. Others are gripped by anxiety attacks, paranoia and post traumatic stress disorder, uncontrollable shaking, curled up in a fetal position. Flashbacks are common. Awake with screaming night mares, sleeping with their AK47's tightly gripped to their chests.

The insurgents lie bed with a blank stare,looking at ceiling for days, listening for “Ghangai”, still traumatized. Many Taliban suffer from  bipolar disorder, moods often swing from depression to elation.
 
From screaming, " to attack" convinced he is the commander of the Taliban and the army then rolling on the floor whimpering covering his face with his hands.
 
The biggest cause for traumatic stress are the drones.
Children in Waziristan call them “Ghangai” (emitter of constant humming).
The sounds of the ghost Ghangai circling invisibly in the skyis enough
to make the Taliban insurgents run for the woods and seek shelter under
the trees, some even sleep there in the cold rather than risk being blown
up. They have listening posts in the mountains with small walkie talkies,
to warn of any sounds of the ghangais.

Even the Taliban leadership is endowed with paranoia of psychotic 
proportions. They kill "spies" on whims, guesses without real evidence.
Further destroying morale among rank and file and adding to traumatic stress
syndrome among their fighters. After 8 or 9 years of war its not unreasonable 
to expect some of the High Taliban leadership are experiencing post traumatic
stress disorder, and will go into seclusion from time to time to recuperate,
Hope they don't get hooked on heroin also, they have free access to tons
of heroin. The pressures they are under must be crushingly immense.



The Taliban rank and file are suffering huge secret losses from post
traumatic stress. The Taliban leadership work very hard to
keep new recruits separated from steady stream of mentally wounded
fighters. They are a big drain on Taliban morale, currently at its lowest
ebb in years.  

Internet Anthropologist Think Tank: How to join the Taliban

 Any negotiations with the Taliban should include treatment for
these thousands of walking wounded.

Taliban Secret wounded part II

Gerald
Anthropologist
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THE SECRET MUJAHDEDDIN


 

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Wall St Bank Robber Barrons

I am at a loss for words.
I can't conger up words strong enough for what I think.

America has had its criminal periods.
I'm not familiar with them all but a few come to mind.
American Indian Treatys (Frauds), still not honored.
The Rail Road Robber Barron's of 1850's
Mafia 1920  and the Gangsters ( 1930 to 1947) Capone, the Purple Gang.
The Japanese war camps WWII
Saving and Loan Frauds.
Enron and Major accounting firms frauds.

And all these periods had some political cover
assistance.

And now we have the biggest criminal combine
of all time.
Huge frauds perpetrated on the American Public
and the rest of the world.
I am at a loss for words to describe this PUBLIC DEBACLE.

Wall St Banks make fools out of law enforcement.
And commit their crimes in public with impunity.
Bribing Congress and de-fanging regulators.

The advertise their Loan Sharking activities,
30% on Credit Cards and 460% on payday loans.
And the last round of Banking Regulations forbid
States from regulating these criminal rates.

The Banks sold "D" subprime paper rated
"AAA" at top prices. And almost brought down
the entire World financial system.
And the Federal Reserve bailed out the perpetrators
not the victims.

Internet Anthropologist Think Tank: The Federal Reserve is Suspect:

Not even one law has been passed to prevent the
Banks from repeating the offense, and no one has
been arrested, in fact congress has protected them
from being broke up by qualifying them too BIG to
fail or break up.

The same banks trade in the dark without
regulation in their "Dark Pools", and knocked
down the Dow -1,000 points in 10 min.
And the Toothless SEC, has no idea how or
who.

Internet Anthropologist Think Tank: Schapiro misleads public,-1000 ...

The Banks are allowed to carry false balance
sheets, reporting their inventory of sub-prime
paper at 100% value, when actual value is
around 30%.

The Government even set up a program
to buy this fraudulent sub-prime paper
that the banks got caught with in their
own scam at 100%.
With tax payer money.
Let me say that again.

The Government bought the scam
artists fraudulent sub-prime, they
created, with Tax payer money
so the Banks wouldn't take a loss.
The Feds bailed out the criminals.
And let the criminals pay them
selves hundred Million dollar
bonuses with Tax payer money.
AND ABSOLUTELY NO PROSECUTION.

Internet Anthropologist Think Tank: People Prison , Banks Bailouts:

The same criminal Banks are allowed
to front run trades on all your investments
costing you some of your profits, in
"black pools" off shore where there is
NO REGULATION.

Wall St Banks front running.Stealing money from every trade.

And the Banks can run high-frequency
programed trades, placing all other
traders at a disadvantage, they even
allow them to place servers on NYSE
property to gain an advantage over
average traders.

Sale of CDS Credit default swaps,
fraudulent investment insurance.
400% the value of NYSE.


And then the Government protects
the Banks gambling with FDIC insurance.

The banks can barrow at the Fed window
at .05% ( one half of one per cent interest rates )
and loan money at 30% on credit cards and
460% payday loans.

The banks are allowed to gamble, using
huge leverage ratios, in risky investment.

The Banks even got the Bankruptcy laws
changed so the victims of their credit card
scams to the poor, with 30% interest rates,
allow the banks to collect Social Security
checks from the poor they have scammed.

The American Congress has approved
every method the banks have come up
with to swindle, cheat and con Americans
and the world out of their wealth.

The Banks brought on the recession, real
estate price collapse and consequently
loss of jobs and 9% unemployment rates
for USA.

The first part of the 21 century will be
known by the Wall St Bank robber Barrons .
And their complete control of congress and
deregulation of all of their criminal activities.

I am so angry and frustrated I can't voice
my feeling in civil discourse.

And they do it in full daylight in public
with impunity, as emasculated Law
Enforcement looks on.

All this SPEAKS TO A CONGRESS OF EUNUCHS,
NO BALLS, OR REGULATION or GUTS.
A Congress bought and paid for.
Sadly USA does have the best politicians
money can buy.

Sad day for America.

When does it stop?

Where does it stop?

These Wall St Banks are National Security Threat.
Wall St Banks = "systemic risk"

Gerald in center on NYSE trading floor.

Gerald
Internet Anthropologist
Series 3 & 7 ( Former Stock Broker )
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Dow -1,000 cyber terrorism?

Dow -1,000 cyber terrorism?

Security Exchange Commission doesn't know.
They didn't look.

Full details here: UPDATED:
http://warintel.blogspot.com/2010/05/schapiro-misleads-public-1000-pt-drop.html
Worth the read. about 3 min.


Gerald
Internet Anthropologist
Series 3 & 7

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Our Genius readers 05.12.10

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Russian's train pirates

Russian forces have released 10 Somali pirates captured during a military operation to free an oil tanker this week, reversing an earlier pledge by President Dmitry Medvedev to punish them "Under the full force of naval law". ( Released in small boat in middle of ocean, certain death, G)

...also suggested that the cost of prosecution and subsequent imprisonment was a factor. "Why should we feed some pirates?"

"Perhaps we should return to the idea of creating an international court and other judicial instruments," Medvedev was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying. "Until we get that, we'll have to do what our predecessors have done when they have encountered pirates."
 SOURCE:

OLD NAVAL LAW
In the early 1800's there was rampant piracy.
 They started hanging pirates when they caught them
and by 1830 piracy ended. ( 200 to 300 hanged every
year. G )

The Russians are training the Pirates.
Russia has sent a clear message, hijack a Russian ship
and they will KILL YOU.

The pirates will quit Russian ships ...
Russians have Trained pirates not to attack Russian
ships under pain of DEATH, it seems to work.

PIRATES DEATH WISH.



Gerald
Anthropologist

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Schapiro misleads public,-1,000 pt drop

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The nation's top financial-market regulators Tuesday all but ruled out the possibility that cyber-terrorism,...unprecedented drop of the Dow Jones Industrial Average by nearly 1,000 points. ( BS..G )

"At this time, we have not identified any information consistent with computer hacker or terrorist activity," Mary Schapiro, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, said in prepared remarks for a subcommittee of the House of Representatives. AND SHE MADE THE REMARKS WITHOUT ACCESS TO
70% OF THE TRADING DATA, MADE IN DARK POOLS, EUROPE, ASIAN RIM AND USA, HER STATEMENT IS LESS THAN ACCURATE. HEAD OF SEC DIDN'T FIND ANY HACKING ACTIVITY.
AND CIA DIDN'T FIND ANY ILLEGAL TRADES??? G

"In order to have stability in the market, we shouldn't withhold anything from the public," Rep. Paul Kanjorski, D-Pa., told Schapiro, warning that a delay could allow conspiracy theories to take hold. YES, DON'T WITHHOLD ANY THING, AND DON'T PROMOTE HALF TRUTHS, REGULATORS DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO
DARK POOLS OR ANY IDEA IF THEY WERE HACKED, OR EVEN WHAT SECURITY THEY HAVE ON THE "DARK POOL " NET. G

He also asked whether last week's plunge could repeat.
Schapiro responded: "I have to say not impossible."
I'LL GUARANTEE A REPEAT. G
Schapiro ruled out the market forces of supply and demand as the cause.

THERE IS NO REASON TO RULE OUT HACKERS, MALWARE OR
CYBER TERRORISM.THEY DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO THE DARK
POOL NETS TO RULE OUT ANYTHING. DOES THE SEC KNOW WHAT
A LOG IS? WHAT DOES THE SEC KNOW ABOUT HACKING?

WITH THE NUMBER OF CYBER BANK ROBBERY'S AT AN ALL TIME HIGH, AND LACK OF CYBER SECURITY AND LACK OF ACCESS TO
DARK POOL LOGS AND NETS THERE IS PLENTY OF ROOM FOR SPECULATION OF HACKING OR EVEN CYBER ATTACK. NOBODY HAS LOOKED.

 OUR PARADIGM INTEL RANKS THE POSSIBLE PERPS:
#1 FRAUD BY BANKS.
#2 HACKERS.
#3 BAD TRADING PROGRAMING.

PRIME CAUSE, LACK OF REGULATION AND TRANSPARENCY.
WTF SECURITY EXCHANGE COMMISSION IS SO LACKING IN
OVERSIGHT THEY HAVE NO IDEA. DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING.
NATIONAL SECURITY RISK AND SEC IS GUESSING.
SPEAKS TO A CONGRESS OF EUNUCHS, NO BALLS, OR REGULATION.

OUR PRIMARY SUSPECT:
Hacking exploits: Target: NYSE's Arca electronic-trading system


Gerald
Internet Anthropologist
Tactical Internet Systems analyst.
SERIES 3 & 7

Another View:
Computer aided crash (proof of concept for future cyber-attack)
Counter Terrorism Blog

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Paki gearing up for something.

Paradigm Intel:

Paki gearing up for something.

Our sources and news reports point to a paradigm shift
in Pakistan.

Things are suddenly very tense and stone-faced in Pakistan.

Today Pak intelligence sent a report to the interior minister, advising all foreigners living in Pakistan as well as several government officials to restrict their movement.  Seems they have captured a number of suicide bombers in the last few days and many more are on the loose.

Afghanistan has closed down 20 foreign aid groups and charities working in the country for failing to provide reports on their work and finances, the government said on Tuesday,

A government-backed commission decided that alongside 152 Afghan non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the groups should be dissolved with immediate effect, the Ministry of Economy said, adding they would be allowed to appeal the commission's decision.

Paki claims they haven't captured Mullah Omar.
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/05/11/pakistani_official_no_we_didnt_capture_mullah_omar

....some chatter that the Taliban has some sort of internal feud and can't find Omar to settle it.

Kawaja filed the motion to stop Baradar from being extradited to Afghanistan.  That motion, BTW, was quietly dismissed yesterday.  Either Omar was unavailable, or there is a serious breach in the cooperation between Afghan and Pak Taliban and possibly Omar is no longer overall leader.

Pakistan is a gossip festival, government officials, reports, everyone.  Nothing stays secret for long.  What is odd is that usually, a speculative report like Omar's capture is played up in the press and at least scoffed at, with this minister or that getting some press.  Witness the loose talk every time some one claims to know where Bin Laden is.  Not this story, dead silence in all the papers and reporters, even the anti-government snoops.  Just no mention of Mullah Omar in any way.

The Punjabi Tigers (that killed Kwaja) just handed over the kidnapped Colonel Imam and British journalist Asad Qureshi to the Haqqani's.  They were captured with Khwaja on March 26..

I'm told that Mullah Omar played a critical role in their release.
EX-ISI man's body found Mar, 30.
Omar sent Jirga to negotiate release second ISI man on
Sat. May 1st. SOURCE:
If he was in custody he couldn't send Jirga.
Brad Thor said: We have known since the end
of March and we had it confirmed ten days ago
by the Pakistanis.

Time lines don't fit, neither does Paki response make
sense.
Russian sources say there are 40 training camps on
Afpak border.
Expect action in N. Waziristan, safe haven of the
two Talibans and al Qaeda

4 hellfire missiles at one truck  in N Waziristan,
 Biggest drone attack to date.

Taliban leadership loosing control.

Recent visit to DC
Afghanistan president to meet Barack Obama for talks
With huge entourage of ministers.

Pure speculation:
They are trying to turn Omar, his freedom for Bin Laden's body?
Which could almost get USA out of Afpak.
Pentagon has zip on the Omar capture thing.
Paki are buttoning every thing down before they announce his capture?
And all hell breaks loose.
Death of Khalid Khawaja, capture of Omar, ISI Retaliation for his death.?
Paki forces are bargaining for huge ransom for Omar.
It seems USA out of loop on this, our BSU's tracking lots
of activity US trying to button down story.
Brad Thor wanted more press.
Brad Thor set up and lied to, effort to damage his rep.
Paranoia has leaked into Paradigm engine.

Many of the pieces there, unable to fit them together at
this time, paradigm engine cranking, no solution yet.
Many ambiguities.


Gerald
Internet Anthropologist

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Pakistan Taliban Isn't on Terror List

8yrs in ? W@TF. G

The Taliban secret wounded. IATT
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Update: Mullah Omar caught: JAWA Report

Jawa Exclusive: Capture Of Mullah Omar Confirmed *sticky*

An overseas intelligence source has confirmed to the Jawa Report that Mullah Omar has been captured as originally reported by Brad Thor.
You can wait for the New York Times to catch up if you'd like, we don't mind.

Here's hoping.

G

UPDATE:

Pakistani official: No, we didn't

capture Mullah Omar

Posted By Josh Rogin Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - 7:52 PM

Despite what you might have read, the Pakistani government did not arrest Taliban leader Mullah Omar, a senior Pakistani government official confirms to The Cable.
"Neither the U.S. government nor the Pakistani government are saying this is true and it is not true," the official said, adding that he was never captured by the Pakistani military or intelligence services and is not in Pakistani custody.
"It just doesnt make sense that we would arrest a man and keep it a secret," the official went on, saying the reports by online sites including Big Government and The Jawa Report are totally off the mark.

SOURCE:

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-1,000 pt crash,

This is a National Security Risk.
Wall St Banks = "systemic risk"

70% of all NYSE trades are done in secret.
In DARK POOLS, in Europe, Pacific rim and USA.
Beyond regulators eyes.

The administration has come forward and
said this wasn't caused by hackers.
But in truth they have no way of knowing.
They don't have access to the Dark Pool
info/data.

Many shares declined to a penny.

Through the trading desks at Barclays, Universa bought 50,000 options contracts, according to people familiar with the matter. The contracts would pay off about $4 billion should Standard & Poor's 500-stock index fall to 800 in June. It was at 1145 points at the time of the trade.

As the stock-trading volume soared, data systems across the stock market began to get clogged. At Barclays Capital, a market data feed that delivers to the firm data on "buy" and "sell" orders went down, although a backup system immediately went online....

By 2:37 p.m., the overload seemed to have taken its toll on the NYSE's Arca electronic-trading system. At that point, its rival, the Nasdaq, owned by NASDAQ OMX Group Inc., detected what it felt was questionable information in the data. It sent out a message saying it would no longer route quotes to Arca.

But in the coming minutes, the BATS exchange also stopped automatically routing orders to Arca. 

With the high-frequency funds either selling or pulling out of the market, Wall Street brokerage firms pulling back and the NYSE stock exchange temporarily halting trading on some stocks, offers to buy stocks vanished from underneath the market. Normally there can be hundreds of offers to buy the iShares Russell 1000 Growth Index exchange-traded fund, but at 2:46 p.m., there were just four bids north of $14 for a fund that had been trading at $51 minutes earlier, according to data reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Around 3 p.m., the selling pressure abated. Just as swiftly as the market fell, it recovered ground. One factor behind the swift recovery, traders say, were funds that use computers and formulas to sniff out bargains in the market. These funds swooped in on hundreds of cheap stocks, helping push the market higher.


SOURCED FROM WSJ

Stock Market Collapse: 

More Goldman Market Rigging?

 

Wall St Banks front running.Stealing money from every trade.

 

 Congress had been cowed into throwing in the towel on its campaign to break up the too-big-to-fail banks. On Friday, Goldman was in settlement talks with the SEC. Goldman and Wall Street reign. Congress appears helpless to discipline the big banks.

This can happen again, with much worse results.

 

Gerald
Internet Anthropologist
Series 3 & 7

Who are these WALL ST BANKS?

 

And goldman.

Wall St Banks = "systemic risk"

Loan sharking, 40% CC, 460% payday loans
Front running stock prices.
high-frequency programed trades.
sub-prime debacle
World economic system on brink
Trading 70% of NYSE in dark pools

-1,000 pt crashes in 8 min.
Two sets of books, fake balance sheets
Bail out for their criminal activities.
Too big to fail
Protected by FDIC ins.

ALL LEGAL??

When does it stop?

Where does it stop?

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Biggest UAV strike ever

US drones fired a barrage of 10 missiles into a compound in Pakistan's lawless northwestern tribal belt early Tuesday, killing four militants, security officials said.

US drones fired a barrage of 10 missiles into a compound in Pakistan's lawless northwestern tribal belt early Tuesday, killing four militants, security officials said.

The strike hit the Lawara Mandi area, close to the border with Afghanistan in Pakistan's North Waziristan district, which has become a bastion of Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants.
"Five US drones fired 10 missiles, killing four militants. They targeted a compound and vehicles parked outside the house," one senior Pakistani security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

SOURCE:

Our sources place number of missiles at 18 and 8 UAV's, one of the biggest strikes ever. Anticipate HVT death. HVT target was Maulvi Sadiq Noor, deputy to Gul Bahadur,  death unknown. Other Russian source reports 40 training camps along border. They fired 4 hellfires at one truck with 4 men in it, HVT.

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Mullah Omar Captured: NOT

 captured? Breaking. Not confirmed....WE DON'T THINK HE WAS CAPTURED.
SOURCE: Brad Thor.
Checking our sources. Two sources say NO, waiting on third. Third in
knocked on every door, zip.

He is the dumb SOB that  ordered the Buddahs in Bamyan Destroyed.
There is a special place in hell for this Dumbass.
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Hypothesis: If true:

Death of Khalid Khawaja,

 ISI Retaliation for his death.?

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More breaking.

From March 5
KARACHI: Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar’s son-in-law – who was ranked seventh in terms of seniority in the Taliban Shura hierarchy – has been arrested in a raid conducted in Karachi.???

11:30 pm EST 05.10.10
Capture doubtful: EX-ISI man's body found Mar, 30.
Omar sent Jirga to negotiate release second ISI man on
Sat. May 1st. SOURCE:
If he was in custody he couldn't send Jirga.
If he is captured the news should be kept quiet,
it would be a huge intelligence coup, and allow
exploiting the Taliban from the top down.

G

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Update: Mullah Omar caught: JAWA Report

Jawa Exclusive: Capture Of Mullah Omar Confirmed *sticky*

An overseas intelligence source has confirmed to the Jawa Report that Mullah Omar has been captured as originally reported by Brad Thor.
You can wait for the New York Times to catch up if you'd like, we don't mind.

Here's hoping.

G

UPDATE:

Pakistani official: No, we didn't

capture Mullah Omar SOURCE:

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Fatwa against funding Terrorism:

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"From [Mufti] 'Abd Al-'Aziz bin 'Abdallah bin Muhammad Aal Al-Sheikh to Your Highness the Servant of the Two Holy Places, the Honorable King 'Abdallah bin 'Abd Al-'Aziz Aal Sa'ud, the Prime Minister, may Allah grant him success. Peace be upon you, and Allah's mercy and blessings. I hereby inform Your Highness that the Senior Clerics Council, in an extraordinary meeting... examined the issue of the funding of terror in accordance with the instructions in your decree (No. 3027B) of March 23, 2010, and issued Ruling No. 239, of April 12, 2010, which addresses these same instructions. I hereby submit [the ruling] for your information and perusal, and beseech Allah to guide your steps and lead you to all that is favorable and desirable in His eyes, and assist you in doing what is good, for He is the best of supervisors. Following is the text of the ruling:"

The Fatwa
"'...The Senior Clerics Council refers [the reader] to its previous rulings and announcements in regard to the deeds of the corrupt of this world, who undermine security and desecrate the sanctities [of Islam] in Muslim and other lands...
"'The council examined the [religious] law on [the issue of] funding terror, taking into consideration that [terrorism] is a crime aimed at bringing destruction by undermining security and harming lives, money, and property, both private and public. [This is achieved by means] such as blowing up homes, schools, hospitals, factories, and bridges; blowing up or hijacking airplanes; [sabotaging] the state's infrastructure, such as oil and gas pipelines; and other acts of destruction and sabotage which are forbidden by [our] religion. [The council also] took into consideration that the funding of terror facilitates [this crime], perpetuates it and [allows it to] spread.
"'The council likewise examined proofs for the ban on funding terror in the Koran, the Sunna, and in the precepts of the shari'a. As it says in the Koran, 'Help not one another unto sin and transgression [Koran 5:2].' And as it says, 'And among men is he whose speech about the life of this world causes you to wonder, and he calls on Allah to witness as to what is in his heart, yet he is the most violent of adversaries. And when he turns back, he runs along in the land that he may cause mischief in it and destroy the crops and the cattle, and Allah does not love mischief-making [2:204-205].' And as it says, 'And do no mischief in the earth after its reformation, and call on Him fearing and hoping; surely the mercy of Allah is near to those who do good [to others] [7:56].' And in [the compilation of hadiths called] the Sahih Muslim, it is related that the Prophet said, 'Allah's curse is upon he who harbors one who introduces [a forbidden innovation].' As Al-Hafez bin Hajar explains in [his book] Al-Fath [Al-Bari fi Sahih Al-Boukhari], this means that both the innovator and he who gives him shelter are sinners in equal measure. One of the enduring principles of Islamic shari'a is that means are judged according to their ends, and according to what the shari'a decrees regarding the protection of rights and contracts in Muslim and [other] lands.
"In light of the above, the council determines that the funding and planning of terror are forbidden, and are punishable according to religious law – whether [the act in question is] providing funds, collecting funds, or taking part in these activities, in any way. [This applies] to both capital and non-capital assets, whether legitimately or illegitimately gained. One who carries out these acts knowingly is committing an offense that merits a religious punishment, to be determined by court proceedings. The council emphasizes that the prohibition on funding terror does not apply to support for charity programs providing livelihood, care or education for the poor – for Allah has commanded to use the wealth of the rich to aid the poor.
"With this fatwa, the Senior Clerics Council guides all Muslims to adhere to their religion and to the way of our honorable Prophet, and to avoid any act that harms others or [involves] hostility towards them. We beseech Allah to [bless] this good country of Saudi Arabia, and all the Muslim lands, with righteousness, justice, providence and unity, and to improve the state of mankind as a whole, so as to carry out justice and spread righteousness. It is Allah who brings success and guides [one] to the right path.
"Allah's blessing be upon His Prophet Muhammad, his family, and all his Companions."





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Cyber Retaliation: Dancho

Should a targeted country strike back at the cyber attackers?By By Dancho Danchev

Summary

Should a targeted country retaliate over cyber attacks using kinetic weapons, or offensive cyber warfare capabilities? Common sense says 'yes', the dynamics of cyber warfare say 'think twice' before doing it, or you may easily end up attacking the wrong country, perhaps even your own infrastructure. 

What do you think?
How should a targeted country threat the infrastructure used by the cyber attackers, even if it’s a compromised third country’s servers they are using? Should a targeted country use its offensive cyber warfare capabilities as a bargaining power against a particular cybercrime-tolerant country, even through the attacks are launched by someone else?
Also, how would a targeted country strike back at a country that has virtually no Internet infrastructure at all?
TalkBack, and share your opinion. ( the comment section did not work G)

 SOURCE:

Dancho one of a few cyber geniuses . G

MY reply:

Retaliation:

In response to a massive Dos attack
there are few options.
There is a cyber side arm that will take
a IP off line. It is not a dos attack.
If the attack is of such proportion
that it runs the risk of bringing down
USA's nodes, then an attack to take
all million or so infected PC's off
the WWW, is do-able.
 The alternative is to let them
take down your nodes, dropping
your WWW to about 15% of what
it normally is.
The problem in using a counter
dos attack is you may be adding
to the process of bring down the
nodes you need to run the WWW.
Taking out a bot net, you may actually
take many PC's off line in the USA.
In addition to knocking the infected
IP's off line is the need to penetrate
the bot net real time to seize C2.
And shut it off, and I suspect only
NSA would have that capability.
Cornfliker has been running for
over a year and the expert civilians
have not been able to take it over
or shut it down. Not even Micro Soft's
security team.
There are other options to taking
out Bot nets, but they are outside the
box and I won't discuss them.

Gerald
Internet Anthropologist,
Tactical Internet Systems analyst

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Taliban propaganda on wired?

Is Noah Shachtman unknowingly promoting Taliban propaganda?
http://www.wired.com/danhttp://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s16fraudtracker&v=26&r=9&vlr=8&pg=1&d=510gerroom/2010/05/washington-finally-feeling-drone-war-backlash/#comments

Read the comments:

The Taliban propaganda has been pushing the Drone attacks kill many civilians and
are an attack on the Muslim religion.

Of course thats not true, and there have been many restrictions placed on drone
attacks, that have greatly limited civilian deaths.

US can't run military operations in Paki but they can do Drone attacks.
And war does have collateral damages, civilians always get killed.
But no country in the world has ever done more to limit civilian deaths
then the current US Military.

The problem isn't the Drone attacks, its the Info War propaganda
run by the Taliban, of course US is not in a war against Muslims.
And the civilian deaths are far lower than the Taliban promote and
lie about.

The problem lies in the poor anti-propaganda run by the US and
the number of terrorist sites left up to promote these lies.

Taliban says 10 civilians killed in strike. And the US response
is we will investigate, and weeks later the truth comes out.
But in the mean time the press carries the story of 10 civilians
Killed and its believed. For two weeks, or the readers never
hear the truth.

The truth is there is very few civilian casualties, and US
is not at war with all Muslims, just the terrorists.
And the Terrorist are bringing children into battle
to increase civilian deaths.
The drones are the weapon the Taliban fear the most
and the drone strikes are being run very responsibly
and effectively.

Taliban leader:
"This is not a fight over territory but for our
existence and survival,"
SOURCE MATERIAL: NewsWeek


There was a vid on YOUTUBE showing a child involved
in planting roadside IEDs, carrying materials, a pre-teen.
( But YOUTUBE removed it.
"This video has been removed due to terms of use violation. "
http://www.youtube.com/index?ytsession=qtHJJ8m3LfEjrahMX8gvg_k9HxZuOGKIMTsdcH6aI0DSEr0ZlQs1qRswetJaQKsYCUJJgrdgeVK0-1YBdYiut_6gt5RkleUpdVlsTys0asS_YpM6fQxBtDvdAPxiKRejW-MJLMmOeal1MNK1QpIFzOUc0BJKvR9BIsZPB05Ll5t7xMnCn43WbkTef8wtB7Qu1TT85coeLzuP-5erdl33R_8PtIt2Sx7Ek9tHwlXjEtcG4n1P_r6Af4azKprs6T_z32MeeuvUmC2KHibeiSDmf-deQJFZDp6oBNC70p03UbngJu8Z_A23G-GckSXMGaPlcy8UYTgFYvRp992ewSkHGFDi0-_JXRCnaiABV7szaF4wCgyUXhy41Q  )

Scarborough says he would rather have US send troops in to get the Terrorists.
WTF, its Paki, he wants us to invade Paki? He says US is dropping Drones all
over the place. Is he a Taliban supporter? His remarks are untrue and irresponsible.

The problem isn't the drone attacks, The problem is
the propaganda lying about the drone attacks and
misleading reports like the one on Wired.
Where readers believe the lies.

This "Am JOE" show was a cluster F*** of half truths and
Taliban propaganda.

"It doesn't take a weak mind to
fall for the Terrorist propaganda;
it just takes presenting it in a
format that the reader believes.

Its human nature to want to right
a wrong, and the more wrong the
act is the stronger the motivation.
Regardless whether the supposed
wrong is true or not.
It just has to be presented in a format
the reader will believe, without
any opposing comment or suspicion
it is a lie."
SOURCE:



Backgrounder on Taliban's defeat:
Taliban leadership loosing control.


I think Noah, award-winning Blogger, has been mislead on this
issue. And generally does an outstanding
job of reporting.


Gerald
Internet Anthropologist

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Taliban leadership loosing control.

The two talibans.
This is number 2, in Afghan.

Picking his nose.

Taliban leadership loosing control.

The new young Taliban are punks, no respect for
the chain of command or white beards.


They are brutal, greedy and corrupted.
They often disregard letters of authority
and orders.

Often governed by greed rather than
religion. In some cases they have
become a threat to some of the Taliban
senior leadership.

The Taliban punks have grown used
to the authority of the Ak47 and they
themselves are disrupting Command and
Control ( C2 ).

They have lost belief in the old leadership
and are suffering very heavy losses.
They are defying the old Guard and
throwing Taliban strategies into chaos.

The young punks in their 20's live and
die by their own wits, and have little
respect for Taliban leaders hiding
in comfort in Pakistan.

Insubordination and disobedience of
orders is common place.

Moral is very low and paranoia is
at new psychotic levels.

The Taliban are historically known
for having no honor even among
themselves. Selling each other
out if the price is right, under the
proper circumstances/excuses.

The competition between Taliban
groups has lead to in fighting and many
casualties. However the number of IED's
has risen to 1,000 for April, 50% increase
from last year, Iranian IED's.

Many of the new punk commanders
are in their 20's thanks to the new
accuracy and lethality of US weapons.

Promotions in the field are fast and furious.
Often leaving the most brutal and
disrespectful in charge.
They don't believe in power sharing,
and want real fighting head to head
with the 100,000 American troops.

"the insurgents have lost 50 commanders
and subcommanders in his home province
of Ghazni alone"

Taliban leader:
"This is not a fight over territory but for our
existence and survival,"

These young Taliban punks have
decimated centuries-old system of tribal rule.
Turning much of the civilian population against
them. While raising the terror and fear level in
every village.

Many of the punks remember after the defeat
of the Taliban in Afghan the crime lords taking
over and blame the Americans, and were victims
and abused, and now have become the abusers.
The Taliban in Afghan are fighting for survival.

SOURCE MATERIAL: NewsWeek

Taliban #1 

Taliban in Paki,  

Times Sq bomber trained and supported and financed

by TTP, headquartered in N. Waziristan, mounting

attacks on USA. N. Waziristan has become a safe

haven for Paki Taliban and mounting attacks world

wide. The Taliban are undergoing a power struggle

In  N. Waziristan for dominance of the leadership.

 In Pakistan, ex-spy Khalid Khawaja's killing is 

surrounded by mystery. Mulla Omar wanted him

alive.

 N. Waziristan could become a tinder box.

Gerald

Internet Anthropologist

The two talibans.IATT

The Taliban's Secret Wounded. IATT
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Ops and Intel update: 05.09.10

Iran executes 'anti-revolutionary' prisoners

Iran's military exercises armed ducks in a Pond.G

On the run, terrorists find new haven in North Waziristan

Attacks signal end of poppy harvest in Afghanistan

 White House sees no cyber attack on Wall Street

WASHINGTON -- The White House's homeland security and counterterrorism adviser says there is no evidence that a cyber attack was behind the chaos that shook Wall Street last Thursday.( They have no idea, not a clue, two huge "Black Pools" one in Europe and one in Pacific rim, without any oversight. G )

 U.S. Debt Shock May Hit In 2018, Maybe As Soon As 2013: Moody's

 

Moodys under investigation for  AAA sub-prime rating, I lost the link, more later.

 FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is proposing to promote competition and preserve the free flow of Web traffic by applying to broadband Internet service certain provisions of rules designed to regulate traffic on copper-wire telephone networks.

(FCC isn't to be trusted with WWW, see below. G )

SOURCE: 

 

FCC Lets Hollywood Turn Off Your Output Jacks 

The move by the Federal Communications Commission grants cable and satellite providers the power to block consumers from viewing just-released movies in an analog format through a process known as Selectable Output Control. Hollywood requested SOC powers as a condition of allowing providers for the first time to release movies to their in-home customers while the film is in theaters.

FCC under control of RIAA and MPAA. G

 “The FCC is allowing the MPAA to control your television,”

RIAA and MPAA count every use of their media( MP3

and video ) as lost revenue. When in fact most of the

views are motivated because they are free. 

The millions of Chinese who do illegally view their

product would never spend $10 to see them.

There is very little actual lost revenue, most of

the illegal uses are by people who would never

pay for the product. They only view because they

Can for free. I play music on Youtube and every
time I play it they count it as loss revenue, and
when they remove the song from YT, I have never
bought the music. RIAA is using a faulty  Hypothesis.

The Cases RIAA have brought amount to shoplifting

24 songs and the poor victims get a Million dollar fine.

RIAA and MPAA are using an outdated abusive

paradigm. They are clinging to the old Brick and

mortar store front paradigm, of selling an actual

physical product. Their current WWW product

cost very close to "00.00" after the first copy.

They are just rearranging bytes on your PC.

If they adapted a Internet Paradigm, prices

would fall drastically and sales would increase

exponentially to cover reduced prices.

If the prices were reduced to reasonable 

levels, people would prefer to purchase

the product instead of risk infection.

RIAA and MPAA have undue influence in

the White House and FCC.

And their paradigm is Greedy and abusive.

 

 G

 

Washington post & NYT cover up.

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/202382.php

Times Sq bomber trained and supported and financed

by TTP, headquartered in N. Waziristan, mounting

attacks on USA. N. Waziristan has become a safe

haven for Paki Taliban and mounting attacks world

wide. The Taliban are undergoing a power struggle
In  N. Waziristan for dominance of the leadership.
 N. Waziristan could become a tinder box.
G

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